3 THE CALGARY HERALD Monday, May 12, 1969 Tongue-ln-Cheek Turns Bleak As Tiny Town Wrecked Worker Crosses Border Union Aiming At Commuter Labor Zap Sapped By Students' Spring Spree The Los Angeles Times, copyright MEXICALI, Mexico Juan Gomez, 24, a farm worker, gets up at 1 a.m. to go to work in the Coachella Valley across the border in California. He takes the bus to the international line and crosses the border after showing his immigration green card. His green card says that Gomez is a legal alien resident of the United States an immigrant. But because he prefers to live in Mexico, one of the reasons being that it is cheaper "It was a lot of fun," said Ken Lien of Fargo.
"It's just too bad Friday night (in Zap) had to happen." Sunday morning, the revellers, shivering in the 29-degree temperature, bleary-eyed and hung over for the most part, were beginning the journey home. Their numbers included students from Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Minnesota, North Dakota, California, Florida and other points. At least one had come from Toronto, a distance of 2,760 miles. Meanwhile, the word was going around that next year would bring a "hop to Hoople," a town of 334 about 60 miles northwest of Grand Forks. The brief career of the town of Zap as the "Fort Lauderdale of the north" was over.
would start a fund to repair the damage, and. many students said they would contribute. "It should 'never have happened," said one. "The mayor (Norman Fuchs)' was foolish to think the towncould handle it. They should have given us a big field to hold the party in, then there wouldn't have been all this trouble." Zap had gone under martial law by the time of the student withdrawal.
"They wrecked the whole town," said Mercer County Sheriff Ivan Stiefel. As far as Bismarck was concerned, "we don't want to cause any trouble," said Ralph Williams, a student, at the University of North Dakota in East Grand Forks. "We just want to have a good time." Riverside Park, declared a "free zone" for the occasion. But if there was any trouble outside the park, arrests would follow. Once established in the park, as many as 19 of the visitors were before a judge at one time, in a court set up in a public building.
Sheriff Dale Granud of Burleigh County said about 40 were jailed for the night. Charges included, littering, illegal possession of liquor and incitement to riot. The party in the park Saturday night was boisterous. The morning light showed the grass littered with a carpet of beer cans. Later there were regrets for the havoc wrought at Zap.
The editor of the student paper in Fargo, N.D., said he BISMARCK, N.D. (CP) -The great zap-in, at Zap, N.D., which began as a tongue-in-cheek concept in North Dakota State University's student newspaper, ended here Sunday in an aftermath of property damage, arrests, National Guard troops and regrets by both students and the townsfolk of Zap. The tiny village of 300 drew from 2,000 to 3,000 students from most parts of the U.S. and from many points in Canada this week-end, for no other reason than the fact that the town bears the name of Zap. About 500 National Guardsmen followed the young people into the town Saturday, after the "zappening" had left the village's downtown section with not one window intact, with damaged buildings and the remains of bonfires smouldering on main street.
Stores and taverns were left in a litter of their own merchandise. After troops cleared the town Saturday, the students left by whatever means were at hand a happenning in search of a place to happen. Driving everything from old hearses to rented buses and cattle trucks, the party moved first to Beulah, just a few miles east of Zap, but the town was closed to them. Hazen, a bit farther, east, was the next stop, but there too, they were unwelcome. That was the pattern for the exodus late Saturday, as the zap-in wandered through the midwestern portion of the state.
Finally a contingent of about 2,000 showed up in Bismarck. City officials warned the students they could hold their party within the environs of Dominion Stores Ban Grapes TORONTO (CP) Dominion there, Gomez commutes tof the fields of Imperial and Coachella valleys. On the American side of the border he and many like him are picked up by labor contractor trucks. They pay $2 each for the ride to the farms. Gomez is usually up five hours before he even begins to work.
But he is not unhappy. Gomez, father of four children, is making $1.69 an hour, much more than he could ever make working in Mexico. A group of farm workers belonging to Cesar Chavez' Farm Workers Union are marching to the border to tell Gomez and his fellow commuters that they should join the union. They hope to reach the border by next Sunday where they plan an "international solidarity of farm workers rally." On the Mexican side, minor officials of the Confederation of Mexican Workers are helping plan the event. Chavez' people, many of whom are green card holders themselves but live on the American side, plan to tell the commuters that if they join the union they can force the growers to pay for their transportation to work and that their pay and benefits will improve.
The grape harvest at Coachella Valley is due to begin at the end of this month and union officials claim the workers are ready for a strike. But they also know that in 1968 the growers were able to replace striking workers with commuters from Mexico. ilUIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIMIIIIIIIIMllllllllIltMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIMIIIIf lllllllllllllllf IIMIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIItlllllllillllllllllMIIIIIM Crippled Plane Avoided Children Before Crashinq Israelis Round Up Al Fatah Suspects Associated Press BIAFRA CLAIMS GAINS ORLU, Biafra (AP) -Biaf-ran forces have claimed gains in a drive toward the oil city of Port Harcourt and the commercial town of Aba. A communique issued Saturday said Biafran forces have recaptured three towns about 33 miles from Owerri on the Ower-ri-Port Harcourt road. It did not give the names of Israeli security forces swooped down on the occupied Stores Canada's largest retail grocery chain, has stopped buying California grapes as part of a boycott which is spreading across North America.
They are the first chain store in Canada to take the step. Signs have gone up in Dominion stores throughout Metropolitan Toronto reading: "Sorry-Due to unsettled conditions in California vineyards, this store is not selling California grapes." Announcement of the Dominion boycott was made at a rally Saturday in support of the California grapeworkers who have been on strike for three and a half years, in an attempt to get The plane, a research craft, owned by the aerospace firm North American Rockwell was testing classified electronic equipment under defence department contract, a company spokesman said. The dead crew members were identified as Marlin Easton, the pilot; John W. Clahorn, 39; Lehland J. Christopher, 39, and Elmer R.
Jazek. Jim Peterson, 15, watching from the carnival, said the pilot "tried to land on the Babe Ruth field across the street, where two games were going on. But he pulled up and the plane wobbled back and forth and hit the roof of the building." Two small apartment buildings containing three or four units were damaged heavily, a five-unit apartment was slightly damaged and the tail section plunged into the yard of a single-family residence. LOS ANGELES (AP) As the crippled old bomber of Second World War vintage sputtered out of the blue California sky, two open areas loomed before the pilot's eyes a baseball field and a parking lot. One, or both, might have been empty on another day.
But it was Saturday. A high school carnival, packed by hundreds of children, jammed the parking lot. On the baseball field, a girls' softball league celebration, along with After three days of negotiations, following clashes between Lebanese troops and guerrilla forces, talks between Lebanese authorities and Al Fatah leader Yasser Arafat appeared to be stalled. Dr. Hassan Sabri Kholi, sent by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser to mediate the dispute, returned home.
Sources in Beirut said the Lebanese army probably will continue to restrict guerrilla activities along the border regardless of the outcome of the talks. Meantime, Egyptian and Israeli gunners exchanged artillery fire along the canal for six hours. Egypt said Israeli gunners fired at the northern Port Said, killing one civilian and wound I union recognition. the towns, but indicated federal Jordanian town of Hebron Sunday and rounded up suspected members of an Arab guerrilla network, defence ministry sources said. At least 11 Arabs were arrested, all said to belong to Al Fatah, largest of the Palestinian guerrilla organizations.
The west-bank town of Hebron has been a centre of Arab resistance to Israeli occupalion. A conflict with Arab guerrillas continued to spell trouble for half-Moslem, half-Christian Lebanon, Israel's tiny neighbor to the north. Government leaders were resisting demands by guerrilla leaders for freedom to use Lebanese territory as a base for strikes against Israel. Lebanon fears Israeli military retaliation. Nigerian troops were fighting a two ball games, had started Scouting Planned OTTAWA (CP) The Boy Scouts of Canada may begin a large-scale expansion in the Far North, Major-Gen.
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